AMRECOVER(8)							   AMANDA INDEX 						      AMRECOVER(8)

NAME

       amrecover - Amanda index database browser

SYNOPSIS

       amrecover [ [ -C ] config ] [ -s index-server ] [ -t tape-server ] [ -d tape-device ]

DESCRIPTION

       Amrecover browses the database of Amanda index files to determine which tapes contain files to recover.	Furthermore, it is able to recover
       files.

       In order to restore files in place, you must invoke amrecover from the root of the backed up filesystem, or  use  lcd  to  move	into  that
       directory,  otherwise  a directory tree that resembles the backed up filesystem will be created in the current directory.  See the examples
       below for details.

       See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda.

OPTIONS

       [ -C ] config
	      Amanda configuration (default: DailySet1).

       -s index-server
	      Host that runs the index daemon (default: localhost).

       -t tape-server
	      Host that runs the tape server daemon (default: localhost).

       -d tape-device
	      Tape device to use on the tape server host (default: /dev/null).

COMMANDS

       Amrecover connects to the index server and then presents a command line prompt.	Usage is similar to  an  ftp  client.	The  GNU  readline
       library is used to provide command line history and editing if it was built in to amrecover.

       The purpose of browsing the database is to build up a restore list of files to be extracted from the backup system.  The following commands
       are available:

       sethost hostname
	      Specifies which host to look at backup files for (default: the local host).

       setdate YYYY-MM-DD
	      Set the date (default: today).  File listing commands only return information on backup images for this day, for the day before with
	      the next lower dump level, and so on, until the most recent level 0 backup on or before the specified date is encountered.

	      For example, if:

		     1996-07-01 was a level 0 backup
		     1996-07-02 through 1996-07-05 were level 1 backups
		     1996-07-06 through 1997-07-08 were level 2 backups

	      then if 1997-07-08 is the requested date, files from the following days would be used:

		     1997-07-08 (the latest level 2 backup)
		     1997-07-05 (the latest level 1 backup)
		     1997-07-01 (the latest level 0 backup)

	      Only the most recent version of a file will be presented.

	      The following abbreviated date specifications are accepted:

		     --MM-DD
			    dates in the current year

		     ---DD  dates in the current month of the current year

       setdisk diskname [ mountpoint ]
	      Specifies  which	disk to consider (default: the disk holding the working directory where amrecover is started).	It can only be set
	      after the host is set with sethost.  Diskname is the device name specified in the amanda.conf or disklist configuration  file.   The
	      disk must be local to the host.  If mountpoint is not specified, all pathnames will be relative to the (unknown) mount point instead
	      of full pathnames.

       listdisk [diskdevice]
	      List all diskname

       settape [[server]:][tapedev|default]
	      Specifies the host to use as the tape server, and which of its tape devices to use.  If the server is omitted, but the colon is not,
	      the  server name reverts to localhost, the configure-time default.  If the tape device is omitted, it remains unchanged.	To use the
	      default tape device selected by the tape server, the word default must be specified.  If no argument is specified, or  the  argument
	      is an empty string, no changes occur, and the current settings are displayed.

	      If you need to change the protocol (tape:, rait:, file:, null:) then you must specify the hostname.

		     settape localhost:file:/file1

	      You can change the tape device when amrecover ask you to load the tape:

		     Load tape DMP014 now
		     Continue? [Y/n/t]: t
		     Tape device: server2:/dev/nst2
		     Continue? [Y/n/t]: Y
		     Using tape /dev/nst2 from server server2.

       setmode mode
	      Set  the extraction mode for Samba shares.  If mode is smb, shares are sent to the Samba server to be restored back onto the PC.	If
	      mode is tar, they are extracted on the local machine the same way tar volumes are extracted.

       mode   Displays the extracting mode for Samba shares.

       history
	      Show the backup history of the current host and disk.  Dates, levels, tapes and file position on tape of each backup are displayed.

       pwd    Display the name of the current backup working directory.

       cd dir Change the backup working directory to dir.  If the mount point was specified with setdisk, this can be a full pathname or it can be
	      relative	to  the  current backup working directory.  If the mount point was not specified, paths are relative to the mount point if
	      they start with "/", otherwise they are relative to the current backup working directory.  The dir can be a shell style wildcards.

       cdx dir
	      Like the cd command but allow regular expression.

       lpwd   Display the amrecover working directory.	Files will be restored under this directory, relative to the backed up filesystem.

       lcd path
	      Change the amrecover working directory to path.

       ls     List the contents of the current backup working directory.  See the description of the setdate command  for  how	the  view  of  the
	      directory is built up.  The backup date is shown for each file.

       add item1 [ item2 ... ]
	      Add the specified files or directories to the restore list.  Each item may have shell style wildcards.

       addx item1 [ item2 ... ]
	      Add the specified files or directories to the restore list.  Each item may be a regular expression.

       delete item1 [ item2 ... ]
	      Delete the specified files or directories from the restore list.	Each item may have shell style wildcards.

       deletex item1 [ item2 ... ]
	      Delete the specified files or directories from the restore list.	Each item may be a regular expression.

       list [ file ]
	      Display  the contents of the restore list.  If a file name is specified, the restore list is written to that file.  This can be used
	      to manually extract the files from the Amanda tapes with amrestore.

       clear  Clear the restore list.

       quit   Close the connection to the index server and exit.

       exit   Close the connection to the index server and exit.

       extract
	      Start the extract sequence (see the examples below).  Make sure the local working directory is the root of the backed up filesystem,
	      or another directory that will behave like that.	Use lpwd to display the local working directory, and lcd to change it.

       help   Display a brief list of these commands.

EXAMPLES

       The following shows the recovery of an old syslog file.

	      # cd /var/log
	      # ls -l syslog.7
	      syslog.7: No such file or directory
	      # amrecover
	      AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on localhost ...
	      220 localhost AMANDA index server (2.4.2) ready.
	      Setting restore date to today (1997-12-09)
	      200 Working date set to 1997-12-09.
	      200 Config set to DailySet1.
	      200 Dump host set to this-host.some.org.
	      $CWD '/var/log' is on disk '/var' mounted at '/var'.
	      200 Disk set to /var.
	      /var/log
	      WARNING: not on root of selected filesystem, check man-page!
	      amrecover> ls
	      1997-12-09 daemon.log
	      1997-12-09 syslog
	      1997-12-08 authlog
	      1997-12-08 sysidconfig.log
	      1997-12-08 syslog.0
	      1997-12-08 syslog.1
	      1997-12-08 syslog.2
	      1997-12-08 syslog.3
	      1997-12-08 syslog.4
	      1997-12-08 syslog.5
	      1997-12-08 syslog.6
	      1997-12-08 syslog.7
	      amrecover> add syslog.7
	      Added /log/syslog.7
	      amrecover> lpwd
	      /var/log
	      amrecover> lcd ..
	      /var
	      amrecover> extract

	      Extracting files using tape drive /dev/null on host localhost

	      The following tapes are needed: DMP014

	      Restoring files into directory /var
	      Continue? [Y/n]: y

	      Load tape DMP014 now
	      Continue? [Y/n/t]: y
	      set owner/mode for '.'? [yn] n
	      amrecover> quit
	      200 Good bye.
	      # ls -l syslog.7
	      total 26
	      -rw-r--r--   1 root     other	 12678 Oct 14 16:36 syslog.7

       If you do not want to overwrite existing files, create a subdirectory to run amrecover from and then move the restored files afterward.

	      # cd /var
	      # (umask 077 ; mkdir .restore)
	      # cd .restore
	      # amrecover
	      AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on localhost ...
	      ...
	      amrecover> cd log
	      /var/log
	      amrecover> ls
	      ...
	      amrecover> add syslog.7
	      Added /log/syslog.7
	      amrecover> lpwd
	      /var/.restore
	      amrecover> extract

	      Extracting files using tape drive /dev/null on host localhost
	      ...
	      amrecover> quit
	      200 Good bye.
	      # mv -i log/syslog.7 ../log/syslog.7-restored
	      # cd ..
	      # rm -fr .restore

       If  you	need  to  run amrestore by hand instead of letting amrecover control it, use the list command after browsing to display the needed
       tapes.

	      # cd /var/log
	      # amrecover
	      AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on localhost ...
	      ...
	      amrecover> ls
	      ...
	      amrecover> add syslog syslog.6 syslog.7
	      Added /log/syslog
	      Added /log/syslog.6
	      Added /log/syslog.7
	      amrecover> list
	      TAPE DMP014 LEVEL 0 DATE 1997-12-08
		      /log/syslog.7
		      /log/syslog.6
	      TAPE DMP015 LEVEL 1 DATE 1997-12-09
		      /log/syslog
	      amrecover> quit

       The history command shows each tape that has a backup of the current disk along with the date of the backup, the level, the tape label  and
       the file position on the tape.  All active tapes are listed, not just back to the most recent full dump.

       Tape file position zero is a label.  The first backup image is in file position one.

	      # cd /var/log
	      # amrecover
	      AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on localhost ...
	      ...
	      amrecover> history
	      200- Dump history for config "DailySet1" host "this-host.some.org" disk "/var"
	      201- 1997-12-09 1 DMP015 9
	      201- 1997-12-08 1 DMP014 11
	      201- 1997-12-07 0 DMP013 22
	      201- 1997-12-06 1 DMP012 16
	      201- 1997-12-05 1 DMP011 9
	      201- 1997-12-04 0 DMP010 11
	      201- 1997-12-03 1 DMP009 7
	      201- 1997-12-02 1 DMP008 7
	      201- 1997-12-01 1 DMP007 9
	      201- 1997-11-30 1 DMP006 6
	      ...
	      amrecover> quit

ENVIRONMENT

       PAGER
	      The ls and list commands will use $PAGER to display the file lists.  Defaults to more if PAGER is not set.

AUTHOR

       Alan M. McIvor <alan@kauri.auck.irl.cri.nz>

SEE ALSO

       amanda(8), amrestore(8), readline(3)

Alan M. McIvor							 29 November 1996						      AMRECOVER(8)